The person who came to deliver the things was a man in his thirties, looking a little gloomy, holding a large bag.

This bag is the kind of old-fashioned faux leather and cloth stitched bag, and it looks a little old. This bag could have been carried, but the man was holding it, which seemed a little unruly.

But it's all guests, and you can't just judge that his things are coming from the wrong way. Wu Duo still invited him to sit down in the reception area, and Huang Wei also accompanied him this time.

"Hello, this is something left by the old man in the family, let's take a look first. The man spoke, and his voice was very magnetic and nice, and it didn't quite match his appearance.

Wu Duo nodded, "I'm Daya Zhai's appraiser, my surname is Wu, your surname?"

"Nguyen. The man replied briefly, then opened the purse and took out a small rectangular wooden box.

In fact, when Huang Wei was asked to see it just now, he had already taken out the wooden box, and Huang Wei had seen everything in it, but when Huang Wei went to find Wu Duo and Qiu Buluo, he put it up again.

Wu Duo looked at the wooden box and couldn't help but glance at Huang Wei.

Huang Wei nodded, and at the same time motioned for Wu Duo to continue looking.

This large wooden box is not simple for a discerning person to look at.

Rosewood.

The key is that it is not the kind of fast-growing forest red sandalwood that is common on the market today, it is the old red sandalwood, a typical wild forest old material.

There are still a certain number of years, to say less, there are always decades, the surface is purple and black and shiny, and the kind of ripe and moist pulp is very attractive.

The whole mortise and tenon structure, or one side of the board, the rectangular wooden box has six sides, that is, six single boards.

This box is about 40 centimeters long, and the width and height are about 25 centimeters, which is not too big, but the old material plate without holes and cracks is not so easy to find.

For such a box, the materials are not cheap.

Ten sandalwood and nine emptiness, the material is hard to find. That's why rosewood beads are so cheap and furniture is so expensive. A pile of beads weighing 100 kilograms and a piece of furniture weighing 100 kilograms, with the same quality of wood, the price is very different.

Wu Duo glanced at Huang Wei, and Huang Wei nodded. It shows that Huang Wei agrees with this box.

The point is that what is inside is not incomprehensible.

The man opened the rosewood box and took out a bronze statue from it.

This is a gilded statue of the god, about a foot high, and the gilt has fallen off in many places, revealing copper, and in some places there are rust stains.

No wonder Huang Wei can't understand it.

Wu Duo can't understand it.

For the idol was an elephant-headed elephant-trunked human body, with a crown of flowers, and six arms, and a ritual weapon in each of its six hands.

Standing posture, and this posture is quite "joyful", one foot on the ground, one foot slightly raised, all knees bent, two heels parallel to each other.

"This is a Tibetan Buddhist thing, the elephant trunk god of wealth. Wu Duo can be sure of this sentence.

After finishing speaking, he said to Huang Wei again, "Elder Zhang is here today." ”

Huang Wei understood and nodded, "Mr. Ruan, if you miss me for a while, you will talk first." After Huang Wei finished speaking, he went to find Zhang Lao.

The elephant trunk god of wealth, in many countries and regions in Asia, is widely spread, is the patron saint of Buddhism, and at the same time, in the folk, it is also widely worshiped the god of wealth, so it is called the elephant trunk god of wealth

But the elephant trunk god of wealth is actually the most informal title.

India is regarded as the "birthplace", in addition to the Sanskrit name, the elephant trunk god of wealth is also called the elephant trunk sky, the god of obstacles, in the Wa country, it is also called the elephant head god, also considered to be the god of consummation of husband and wife, in Thailand, there is also a name called the elephant head God of wealth heaven.

After Huang Wei left, the man smiled, "Yes, it's Tibetan Buddhism, and the great sage rejoices in heaven." ”

The man said that "the great sage rejoices in heaven" is a name for Tibetan Tantric Buddhism.

Faced with things that he didn't have much contact, Wu Duo didn't dare to hold it up, and said: "Mr. Ruan, you also know it too!"

After that, I listened carefully.

As a result, this is a gilded statue of the elephant trunk God of Wealth in the early Qing Dynasty!

Moreover, it was introduced to Tibet from Nepal and is not a Chinese craft.

Wu Duo didn't hear much of it, but these were almost enough for valuation.

It is only when Wu obtains the current information that he can accurately estimate the price.

And after the man heard Wu Duo receive a sentence of "You also understand", he actually said more, "This statue was bought by a herdsman when my parents were alive, more than ten years ago, when the two traveled to Tibet together. ”

"Then Lingzun Lingtang should be an expert!"

The man nodded, "Both of my parents loved to study Tibetan culture. My father studied Tibetan Buddhism a lot, and my mother studied Tibetan ornaments a lot. Because of this idol, they also told me a story about the Indian elephant trunk god of wealth. Do you want to hear it?"

Wu Duo was a little embarrassed, he really didn't want to hear it now, but he didn't feel polite to refuse directly, and people came to send things, and the key was to send a genuine product to the generation.

When Wu Duo was plausible, the man actually spoke.

"Legend has it that this elephant-trunked god of wealth, originally named Ganesh, was the son of Lord Shiva and the goddess of the snow-capped mountains. But when he was born, Lord Shiva was not at home. He was very tall from birth, and after a few days, the goddess of the snow-capped mountain took a bath and let her son guard the door. While guarding the door, Lord Shiva returned······"

When the man spoke, Wu Duoxin said, why can't Zhang Lao come over?

As a result, it wasn't until the man basically finished speaking that Zhang Chengjin came over.

Wu Duo also understood the synopsis of this story.

Later, when Lord Shiva came back, he saw a young man guarding his wife's door, and he thought that his wife was having an affair with this young man, but he didn't know that it was actually his own son.

So Lord Shiva wanted to go in and ask for clarification, but Ganesh did not let Shiva enter because of his mother's instructions to guard the door, and Lord Shiva was furious and cut off Ganesh's head with a single sword. that is, the head of his own son.

Later, as soon as the goddess of the snow mountain came out, she must have made it clear, but it was too late to make it clear. Lord Shiva repented and went to Vishnu, the guardian god of life.

In the end, Ganesh was definitely going to be resurrected, but with an elephant's head.

At the same time, the decapitated elephant is not ordinary, and it is said to be the mount of Indra, the king of all gods.

From then on, Ganesh was helped by all the gods, and he became the god of luck and the god of removing obstacles.

In this way, Wu Duo listened to an Indian mythological story very embarrassed.

After Zhang Chengjin came over, he was also slightly stunned, and after greeting the man, he took a serious look.

Wu Duo also asked the man with a smile at this time, "Mr. Ruan, I don't know what price you want to sell?"

"Such an important statue of a god really can't be sold cheaply. I just said so much, just to make you realize his value. The man did not directly mention the price, but emphasized it first.

Only then did Wu Duo understand why he was telling this story, co-authoring it to highlight this statue!

The value of the statue lies in the vintage, material, craftsmanship, perfection, and so on; how much does the background story have any effect? Now let an ordinary craftsman make an elephant trunk God of Wealth, the same background will not be worth anything.